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MGR. O'KEEFE DIES; PRIEST TO NEGROES; Devoted 45 of His 69 Years to Ministering to Colored Roman Catholics of City. WAS NATIVE NEW YORKER Educated at College of St. Francis Xavier Here and at St. Joseph's Seminary in Troy.

The Right Rev. Thomas M. O'Keefe, pastor of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, 213 West 141st Street, who had been called the most beloved priest who ever served the colored Catholics of New York City, died peacefully at 6:10 o'clock last night in his rectory, next door to his church.

January 15, 1933

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